I can get alerts in email or messages, no need dedicated app for that, I can track there also my balance, so only useful thing app provides are easy wire transfers from phone, which I never do, if I wanna transfer money is much more convenient work big display, proper keyboard and mouse than from phone.
We've cultivated a tech culture that can't stand the slightest inconvenience. People will give up nearly everything if it means avoiding the least bit of effort.
We are so boned
So yes if it weren’t for people wanting convenience the “Year of Linux on the Desktop” would have happened 25 years ago.
What do you suggest? Everyone carry around their desktop computers and our CRT monitors like we did when we wanted to play Quake with friends?
> What do you suggest? Everyone carry around their desktop computers and our CRT monitors like we did when we wanted to play Quake with friends?
The exercise would do people good. Jokes aside though, there is a nuance between completely inconvenient and designed for the marching morons.
You mean 80% of adults worldwide are “morons”? Have you ever thought that they may know something you don’t know?
If 80% of adults worldwide somehow became unable to tolerate the slightest inconvenience, then yes, I'd say they would be morons, but I doubt they are. I'm unsure where you're getting the 80% statistic from.
yes, getting emails or text messages instead of having app alerts is luddism.
Get real, dawg
Uhh yes - when 90% of adults worldwide have moved to smart phones - yes you are the Luddite.
Email is for old people has been a meme for two decades
https://www.techdirt.com/2007/11/15/email-is-for-old-people/
That's great for you but unfortunately the overwhelming majority of people do indeed regularly use these features.
You actually check your email regularly? How much effort does it really take to transfer a balance on a phone?
For Bank Of America it’s:
1. Click on “pay & transfer”
2. Click on “transfer”
3. Click on “From” and choose account
4. click on “to” and choose account
Then type in the amount and and click on the date?
Is it really that much easier on a computer?
"if I wanna transfer money is much more convenient work big display, proper keyboard and mouse than from phone"
You realize how ridiculous this sounds, right?
It reads like he made typos/autocorrect mistakes on his mobile phone!
Which is a pretty funny illustration of the gist of what he was saying… it’s easier to make mistakes on phones.